Their service is a Flash app which plays an arbitrary FLV file on any server.

For example I can patch this URL of theirs for viewing Steve Garfield
stuff on blip:
http://www.myheavy.com/video.php?video_url=http%3A//blip.tv/file/get/Stevegarfield-BehindTheScenesJohnEdwardsYouTubeAndTheCampaignWebsite426.flv&video_title=Behind%20the%20Scenes%3A...&video_desc=&video_author_name=Blip%20TV&video_author_url=http%3A//blip.tv&video_thumb_url=http%3A//blip.tv/uploadedFiles/Stevegarfield-BehindTheScenesJohnEdwardsYouTubeAndTheCampaignWebsite586.jpg

To use this third party FLV instead:
http://www.mediacollege.com/video-gallery/testclips/barsandtone.flv

Giving this completely functional URL:
http://www.myheavy.com/video.php?video_url=http://www.mediacollege.com/video-gallery/testclips/barsandtone.flv&video_title=Behind%20the%20Scenes%3A...&video_desc=&video_author_name=Blip%20TV&video_author_url=http%3A//blip.tv&video_thumb_url=http%3A//blip.tv/uploadedFiles/Stevegarfield-BehindTheScenesJohnEdwardsYouTubeAndTheCampaignWebsite586.jpg

To make this problem go away 100% blip.tv just needs to do a rewrite
rule to block myheavy.com.  This will do the job without a crazy lynch
mob asking to extend the DMCA to be even more onerous and, given the
blip guys' chops, will take less than ten minutes.

The sky is not falling.  Really.

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